Kidnapping for marriage (<i>ala kachuu</i>) in a Kyrgyz village

Kleinbach, Russell; Ablezova, Mehrigiul; Aitieva, Medina

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“…Amsler and Kleinbach (1999) estimate that 17 percent of kidnappings do not result in marriage, either because the woman herself or her family resist. Kleinbach et al (2005) provide an estimate of only 8 percent.…”

Section: Background: Kidnapping Of Brides In Kyrgyzstanmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The authors pointed out that the risk of kidnapping declined since the collapse of the Soviet Union, particularly within the most recent marriage cohort. According to another survey among all households in one village in 2004, 80 percent of Kyrgyz marriages were the result of kidnapping (Kleinbach et al, 2005). Only 34 percent of the kidnappings took place with the woman's consent, 46 percent of the women were kidnapped through deception and 18 percent were taken by physical force.…”

Section: Background: Kidnapping Of Brides In Kyrgyzstanmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Her most striking result was that there was no relationship between a man's education as well as profession and his likelihood to kidnap. Kleinbach et al (2005) interviewed the women of one predominantly Kyrgyz village and found that both kidnappers and kidnapped women had reasonable levels of education. Only 10 percent of the men and 12 percent of the women had less than secondary schooling.…”

Section: Background: Kidnapping Of Brides In Kyrgyzstanmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The extent of force involved in the kidnapping appears to vary widely (Amsler and Kleinbach, 1999;Kleinbach et al, 2005). One extreme is fully non-consensual abduction in which the bride is kidnapped by the groom through physical force.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Forced Marriage and Birth Outcomes

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Abstract:We study the impact of bride kidnapping, a form of marriage practiced in Central Asia and elsewhere, on infant birth weight. Considerable debate exists as to whether kidnapping is merely ritualized elopement, or whether it involves bride coercion. To the extent that it is non-consensual, we expect adverse consequences from such marriages, working through poor spousal matching quality and subsequent psychosocial stress. Remarkable survey data from rural Kyrgyzstan enable us to explore differential outcomes for kidnapped women. We apply several estimation models, including an IV estimation in which we instrument kidnapping among young women with the district-level prevalence of kidnapping among older women and an OLS regression with district fixed effects. Our findings indicate that children born to kidnapped mothers are of a substantially lower birth weight than children born to mothers who are not kidnapped. We further find less positively assorted mating among spouses in kidnapped marriages than in other types and higher divorce rates among kidnapped women. These findings have important implications for children's long-term development; they also discredit the ritualized-kidnapping-as-elopement view.

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Section: Background: Kidnapping Of Brides In Kyrgyzstanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Background: Kidnapping Of Brides In Kyrgyzstanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Background: Kidnapping Of Brides In Kyrgyzstanmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Forced Marriage and Birth Outcomes

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“…This is a Kyrgyz custom that has reemerged following the country's independence and the frequency of bride kidnapping, both symbolic and real, seems to have increased in the post-Soviet era. A small-scale survey conducted in a rural area suggests that around one third of marriages among rural ethnic Kyrgyz stem from nonconsensual 'bride kidnappings' (Kleinbach et al 2005).…”

Section: Figure 4: Administrative Regions Of Kyrgyzstanmentioning

confidence: 99%